you need to let the mids have air or thay will not let you have the mids that you are looking for

do you have a pic of inside the door ?
can we see a pic of the dash ?

 

Thanks guys, this is way more response than I was expecting.
MR2NR, I have been considering the 165KBE to make it the K3P set, my only concern is with the kicks I would need. If I went with the 165 kit, I would pull the mids that are in the lower door and put the extension kit in their place but i would have to put the original mids in a kick somewhere. I'm afraid of the size I would require for both it and the tweets. This is why I considered adding a 3 inch mid instead of the kit. Since I am running an active setup, I would cut the current midbass at 300hz, hence giving the whole midrange to the new 3 inchers. These would be mounted with the tweets in either a kick (down low) or integrate them together up in the upper doors or dash.

I will try and snap some pictures of the dash area tomorrow when its light.

Tim

 

Here are some pics of the car.
You will see the 6.5's are pulled forward. I built up the stock mounts with this 1 inch hard nylon stuff (UHMV ??) and matting, plus added a few sheets inside the doors. Its a nice tight install for the 6.5's.

Tim

 

in the door is the k2p in a foam thing cup ?
in the door (aaaa do you have a pic of inside the door ?)

 

^ just as i thought....... the phase diffuser is at the wrong angle. and will produce "strange imaging" or an incoherent soundstage as mention above.


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I kind of wondered about the orientation of that diffuser. The kicker is that the installer that put in the tweets, set the cups in some sort of body filler, so I can't move them. I think he thought that the diffuser moved separately of the whole tweeter/cup assembly.

Sorry but I do not have pictures of the inside the doors.

 

Sorry to bud in, but I will be attempting a similar installation, and have a few questions.

Does this apply to the Utopia midbass drivers also? Does that mean that the openings in the door should NOT be covered with Dynamat to give the mids more "air" ?

Also, where is the best place to mount the TN-51 ? In the A-pillar, or by the mids in the door ? And, how should the phase diffuser be aligned if the tweeters are installed in the A-Pillar ?

 

the tweeters like the a-piller
the focal mids like about 30L of air
someone here did a 30 page thing on what he did to get his focal speakers how he liked them (i think it was "my new k2ps")

 

Thanks for the information. Ill do a search for the k2ps install that you mentioned.

 

http://www.canadiancaraudio.com/online/general-sq/24462-k2p-finally-here-pics.html